The Labour leader furiously accused the Tories of inflicting savage cuts on welfare benefits and failing to tackle the housing and social care crises.

Hitting back at Philip Hammond's Budget - which promised to end austerity - Mr Corbyn said Britons are still struggling with low wages and squeezed public services.

He said the 'precious' NHS is a 'thermometer of the well-being of our society'.

He added: 'But the illness is austerity - cuts to social care, failure to invest in housing and slashing of real social security.

'It has one inevitable consequence - people's health has got worse and demands on the National Health Service have increased.'

In a swipe at Theresa May, he added: 'Far from tackling the burning injustices as the Prime Minister said her Government was going to do, they have actually made them worse and increased the injustices in our society.'

Jeremy Corbyn (pictured today in the Commons responding to the Budget) tore into Philip Hammond's Budget - insisting that it had failed to end austerity

The Chancellor said he was safeguarding 'Britain's future' and helping the 'strivers' as he told the House of Commons he will pump more money into the NHS, social care, mental health and the armed forces

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He slammed ministers for failing to set aside money for women who have lost out in the raising of the state pension age - known as Waspi women.

And he said that Mr Hammond's new 'Amazon tax' to levy charges against big tech giants, wa s'too little too late'.

What was announced in Philip Hammond's Budget?

Here are some of the spending pledges announced in Philip Hammond's 2018 Budget:

Health:

An extra £25billion-a -year will be pumped into the NHS by 2023.

It includes a £2bn a year mental health fund to pay for every A&E and school to get a mental health unit.

Brexit:

An extra £500million will be pumped into planning for a no deal Brexit - rising the total from £1.5bn to £2bn. Mr Hammond also said the Spring Statement next year could be turned into a full Budget if there is a no deal Brexit.

Broadband:

A £250million fund to install super-fast broadband across Britain's countryside

Business:

Business rates will be cut by nearly a third for half a million small retailers ans ministers try to save Britain's high streets.

Transport:

England's roads will get an extra £28.8billion, while a pothole fund of £420 million will be set up and fuel duty will be frozen for the ninth year in a row.

PFI

The Chancellor announced that PFI will be scrapped as he puts an end to Labour 's legacy

Schools:

The Treasury is giving a one off £400m payment to schools to help them buy equipment. This amounts to £10,000 for every primary and £50,000 for every secondary.

Defence:

The MoD will get an extra £1bn to help Britain's Armed Forces following dire warnings over a £20bn blackhole in their finances over the next decade.

The Environment:

Britain will splash out £60million on planting 10 million trees across England.

Tax:

The self-employed will have to pay national insurance contributions for the first time. The tax raid will prove unpopular with white van men, but could bring in £1.2bn year by 2023.

Cutting red tape:

Weddings will be allowed to take place in pubs, hotels and restaurants as Philip Hammond slashes red rape.

He said: 'There was not even recognition, let alone money set aside, for the women born in the 1950s who have been denied pension justice.'

The Labour leader also furiously attacked the wages squeeze - which has seen British workers have their most sluggish pay growth in 200 years.

He said: 'Every public sector worker deserves a decent pay rise, but 60 per cent of teachers are not getting it - neither are the police nor the Government's own civil service workers.'

The Labour leader added the economy was also being damaged by a 'shambolic Brexit'.

And he turned his ire on the Chancellor's no deal Brexit planning - which it was announced today is being hiked fro £1.5bn to £2bn.

He said this extra cash is a sign of 'panic not planning' because the Government 'cannot agree a deal amongst themselves',.

And he accuse of many in the Tory Party of plotting to turn Britain into their 'fantasy' of a Singapore-style 'race to the bottom on rights and protections'.

He said: 'That must be rejected outright.

'What we need is a Labour government that will invest in every region and nation of our country and will use the wealth we create to fund world-class public services.

'What's needed is a real break with austerity and a government committed to raising investment across the board to rebuild our economy, communities and public services.'

Mr Hammond mounted a bold raid on Amazon and Facebook and handed tax cuts to millions of workers today as he delivered what could be the last Budget before Britain leaves the EU.

The Chancellor said he would raise hundreds of millions of pounds a year by hitting web giants - who have been accused of failing to pay their fair share - with a levy based on revenues.

But the scale of the new levy was dwarfed by the huge spending splurge unveiled in the package, totalling an eye-watering £100billion over the next five years.

Billions of pounds will be pumped into the NHS, social care, mental health and defence, while the troubled Universal Credit benefits reforms will be bailed out with another £1billion of 'transitional' protections and £1.7billion in improved work allowances - effectively reversing cuts previously imposed by George Osborne.

Increases to tax thresholds will be raised faster than previously promised - saving around 32 million workers £130 a year.

Mr Hammond said the giveaways were possible due to the 'tough decisions' the government had made over the past eight years - which had brought better growth forecasts and lower borrowing.

'Their hard work is finally paying off and the era of austerity is finally coming to an end,' he insisted.

The Chancellor said in his Budget that growth had been upgraded marginally by the Office for Budget Responsibility

The House of Commons was packed to the rafters to hear the Chancellor deliver his pre-Brexit Budget this afternoon

The Chancellor has already warned that this dramatic giveaway Budget assumes that there will be a Brexit deal - hinting that a collapse in the knife-edge negotiations with Brussels could undermine plans to draw a line under austerity.

He said this afternoon he was 'confident' there will be a deal, suggesting it would bring a 'double dividend' from better growth and enabling him to free up the Brexit warchest.

But he revealed he is increasing spending on preparations for no-deal from £1.5billion to £2billion next year, and said if there is no settlement with the EU he is ready to 'upgrade' the Spring Statement to a full Budget.

Mr Hammond also won cheers from MPs for announcing the end of controversial PFI projects - saying he had never signed off such a scheme and 'never will'.